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On January 1, 2022, all sound recordings published before 1923 entered the public domain – the first sound recordings to involuntarily lose copyright protection in US history. (Creators have always been free to surrender copyright protection and deed their sound recordings into the public domain, as Tom Lehrer would do later in 2022 after ...
The Internet Archive collection is limited to those shows which have lapsed into the public domain. The Adventures of Ellery Queen – four episodes (December 21, 1950, plus March 29, May 10, and November 8, 1951) The Arthur Murray Show – half a 60-minute episode (October 22, 1950) with Reginald Gardiner and Lily Ann Carol
Recordings that were first published between 1947 and 1956 are protected for a period of 110 years after first publication. Recordings that were published after 1956 and first fixed prior to February 15, 1972 will enter the public domain on February 15, 2067. Note that sound recordings that were first fixed prior to February 15, 1972 are a ...
All of the films, books, art, and sound recordings released in the entire decade of the 1920s are now officially part of the public domain.
From March 1950 to July 1952, no live broadcasts of the show were preserved with two exceptions: one episode from October 13, 1951, and another from January 5, 1952. The first one is a "public domain" episode, the second exists at the Paley Center for Media in New York City. The show was not regularly preserved until August 1952, and that is ...
Under the Act, the first sound recordings to enter the public domain were those fixed before 1923, which entered the public domain on January 1, 2022. Recordings fixed between 1923 and February 14, 1972, will be phased into the public domain in the following decades. [52] [53] Specifically, works fixed 1923–1946 are public after 100 years and ...
If no notice of copyright was affixed to a work and the work was "published" in a legal sense, the 1909 Act provided no copyright protection and the work became part of the public domain. In the report submitted by the House Committee on Patents, they designed the copyright law "not primarily for the benefit of the author, but primarily for the ...
Recordings which entered the public domain prior to 1 January 2013 are not retroactively covered. 50 years from end of calendar year when the broadcast was first made (broadcasts) [238]: s. 14 Yes [238]: s. 12, 13 United States [240] Life + 70 years (works published since 1978 or unpublished works) [241]